John Yoo Makes Tortured Defense Of Corporations Secretly Buying Elections

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John Yoo Makes Tortured Defense Of Corporations Secretly Buying Elections
By Ian Millhiser on Jul 22, 2011 at 11:40 am

In an essay published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, torture memo author John Yoo brings his unsurpassed ability to pretend the Constitution says whatever conservatives wish that it said to the subject of whether President Obama can issue an executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their political donations:

The proposed executive order making disclosure of political giving history a condition to being awarded a federal contract makes some of the Nixon-era “dirty tricks” look almost quaint by comparison. <...> As the Supreme Court has made clear, anonymous political speech enjoys “an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent,” and anonymity serves as a shield “against the tyranny of the majority.” Any president who seeks to undo this centuries-old American constitutional right by the fiat of an executive order would be prudent to reflect on the ultimate outcome when Richard Nixon and John Dean tried, using their infamous enemies list, to accomplish that precise objective.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/22/276011/yoo-tortures-democracy/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Yoo is a certifiable idiot

Anonymous speech is a time honored right of INDIVIDUALS not corporations.

[Ed Suspicious]

2. I wish John Yoo would crawl his tired ass into a hole and die. n/t